• The Defence Minister has launched an artificial intelligence-powered grievance management app. The application was created by the Defence Ministry with the assistance of IIT-Kanpur. This is the first AI-powered system created to improve government grievance redressal. • In Varanasi,…
• Sometimes, the moon seems to move in mysterious ways. It is mostly circles and ovals. But there is also something else — a so-called wobble — animating those rotations and revolutions. According to a recent study, the phenomenon is…
• Nearly 1,000 km from where he once ruled, Mysore King Tipu Sultan is at the centre of controversy in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation over attempts to name a garden after him in Govandi, a suburb in Eastern Mumbai. About:…
• In the coming week, the Supreme Court is expected to begin hearing a fresh challenge to the provision allowing restitution of conjugal rights under Hindu personal laws. In 2019, a three-judge Bench of the Supreme Court had agreed to…
• The Cabinet has approved a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between India and the Russian Federation on cooperation in the production of coking coal, which is used in the production of steel. The goal of the memorandum of understanding is…
• Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, called this week on the administration of President Joe Biden to greenlight a plan to transmit the Internet to people in Cuba via high-altitude balloons when their government has blocked access. Can Internet be…
• The recent attempt of Periyar Tiger Reserve (PTR) to reintroduce into the wild an abandoned nine-month-old cub named Mangala after rearing it in ‘captivity’ for two years has once again brought the controversial concept of ‘re-wilding’ of abandoned or…
• The Amazon forests in South America, which are the largest tropical forests in the world, have started emitting carbon dioxide (CO2) instead of absorbing carbon emissions. About: • A significant amount of deforestation in eastern and southeastern Brazil has…
• Minister (External Affairs) S Jaishankar has unveiled a statue of Mahatma Gandhi in Georgia at a central Tbilisi park. Highlights: In this two-day visit to Georgia, a strategically important country situated at the intersection of Eastern Europe and Western…
• The Reserve Bank of India has so far barred three foreign card payment network companies — Mastercard, American Express and Diners Club — from taking new customers on board over the issue of storing data in India. What do…
• As the Taliban push ahead with military offensives across Afghanistan, preparing to take over after the exit of US and NATO forces, India faces a situation in which it may have no role to play in that country, and…
• The India Meteorological Department’s (IMD) only Doppler radar in Mumbai, which surveys weather patterns and forecast, stopped working again, when the city was witnessing rainfall. How does a Doppler radar work? • In radars, a beam of energy– called…
